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Ethical Communities, Care Practices, and Social Crises
No full textThis thesis experiments with archival ethnography to engage with the private and intimate family documents of an Egyptian Coptic family from the 1940s and 1950s. Through such an engagement this work attempts to make sense of the problematic of memory, time, history, and identity through the archival remainders of this family as they navigate communal instability, change, and transformation that parallel equally significant socio-cultural transformations surrounding them. The intimacy of letters, handwritten notes, fragmentary notebook scraps and collections of personal and familial letters and photographs are explored to make sense of these quotidian negotiations of communal identity
